Retire, yes, let it go, not so much—after nearly 50 years as head of styling, Willie G. Davidson is retiring from Harley-Davidson April 30, 2012, but he will continue his involvement with the company as an ambassador at motorcycle rallies and events, and through special design projects as Chief Styling Officer Emeritus.

Unless we get an ugly, hard freeze that nips spring in the bud, so to speak, 2012 is shaping up into a fabulous spring for wildflower rides. So get ready to dust off your camera and shake off the winter blues and see the blues, bluebonnets that is, and all of the other wildflowers Texas is famous for.

“Where the ultra lounge meets the gun range,” the website reads in all caps. I’m not sure why this didn’t happen in Texas first, but the people who are opening Machine Guns Vegas tell us that they’ll have “fully trained ‘Gun waitresses’ to provide you with a cocktail of gun cocktails at Machine Guns Vegas.” Because you wouldn’t a partially trained “gun waitress” now would you?